Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR

67 paginated leaves : 220 x 130 (170 x 90 and 170 x 75) mm

Jaghmīnī's treatise on astronomy and geography with a preface and dedication to Ulugh Beg on the first 5 pages. Includes many diagrams and some empty spaces left for illustrations that were never completed

Manuscript codex

Title from introduction (p. 5); alternate title from p. [1]

Pagination: Pages are numbered in ink, upper center: [1]-134. References in the record are to page numbers as they appear in the manuscript

Layout: 14-23 long lines with extensive marginalia, including interlinear comments

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, partially vocalized

Decoration: Two tables (p. 12-13) and 45 diagrams in red and black; headings and other finding aids also in red

Origin: Not dated; text was dedicated to Ulugh Beg when first composed; a marginal note on p. 2 also gives a date of A.H. 1256 (1840)

Shelfmark: MS Or 21

Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934

Covers missing, unsupported sewn textblock with helical style primary endband

Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description

Columbia University Catalog: go to CLIO

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